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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by BobbyJo on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:53PM (#28043703)
Do you have any idea how much raw material and energy would be available to humanity if we were able to successfully colonize the solar system? The scale of what we could build and learn would be absolutely shaking. Seriously. That's enough 'why' for me.
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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by jonahbenton on Monday August 02, 2021 @07:38PM (#28044082)
On what timescale, at what level of capital investment?
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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by kamkazemoose on Monday August 02, 2021 @07:47PM (#28044152)
In a little over 100 years we've gone from the first powered flight to flying a helicopter on Mars. We might not be mining asteroids in 5 years but it isn't unreasonable to think it could happen in our lifetimes.
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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by afterburner on Monday August 02, 2021 @07:43PM (#28044113)
Hundreds of years, government-level investment.
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